[Python-Dev] Fixing the XML batteries (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Fri Dec 9 20:33:17 CET 2011


Xavier Morel <python-dev at masklinn.net> wrote:

On 2011-12-09, at 19:15 , Bill Janssen wrote: > I use ElementTree for parsing valid XML, but minidom for producing it. Could you expand on your reasons to use minidom for producing XML?

Inertia, I guess. I tried that first, and it seems to work.

I tend to use html5lib and/or BeautifulSoup instead of ElementTree, and that's mainly because I find the documentation for ElementTree is confusing and partial and inconsistent. Having various undated but obsolete tutorials and documentation still up on effbot.org doesn't help.

Bill



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